August 2009 Archives

implant

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I will be so pretty with my new glasses and my new tooth. Brush your teeth children, and floss, floss, floss. So you never have to go through this. I remember the first time this tooth gave me trouble, we were on a school trip to Düsseldorf to see a Sigmar Polke show. Some girl gave me a homeopathic ointment, as if that was going to do anything. It resulted of course in a root canal, and I must say, the little tooth held until this Summer, so that is pretty good. In June it broke off, on a piece of bread, and my dentist glued it back. Then I went on my trip to Amsterdam and it broke again, but I managed to keep it in my mouth. And now finally, the implant process. The stupid root came out in five pieces or so. The breaking sound alone. And the brute force this gentle surgeon had to use and was trying to hide. Floss children, floss.

3 frames

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Now which ones will it be? Left and right are Paul Smith, middle Oliver Peoples.

paella

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Weekend, tired. Michiel is making paella tonight, he is grocery shopping right now. Shall I invite someone? It's just three of us here tonight, I am certain he'll make way too much.

the lodewijk van deyssel city

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Willem won an advanced Tim copy, congratulations! (van je familie moet je het hebben) So the VPRO guide. It was a short story contest about imaginary cities, and I illusatrated one of the winning stories. Which was a hard nut to crack, because it's almost like the story doesn't describe an imaginary city, but an imaginary drawing. To the last detail.

generous compensation

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Quite a productive day, I think. And I was told that my city drawing is in this week's VPRO-guide. Would anyone be so good as to send me a scan or a photograph? Preferably of both pages, the drawing and the story? I can send you an advanced copy of an Albert Heijn mini-Tim book as generous compensation. Autographed.

not even done all of the laundry yet

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And back from canoeing just in time for my parental thingy. And on to the next drawing. How ever did I manage to squeeze in a week to go camping? Tell me, so I can do that again.

massasauga provincial park

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Did you miss me? I'll bet you did. We went canoeing, seven days, five camp sites, 32 kilometers. We saw a rattle snake, an otter, and almost a bear. Orbit smelled it the instant he got out of the canoe, he barked into the wood. Orbit never barks unless something is seriously wrong. He shaked and shivered and panted all night long, I don't think he slept at all, terrified. But we never saw the bear. The park people said there are tons of bears around this year. They had told us there was one with three cups at our first camp site, but we were fine there. We met other campers whose dog got jumped on by a bear, they had watched it happen from inside their tent. But the bear was nice, didn't hurt the dog, just scared it. Anyhow, we had a great time, if you want to see all the pictures you have to go to my facebook.

now it's waiting for the income authority

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This is a very complicated, and probably very important article and I am not going to explain it. But hurray for complicated and overly abstract articles, because the only way of finding a picture to go with it is to hire an illustrator!

ward's island

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Such a lovely sunset on the beach, looking out over Toronto's skyline, drinking wine with my friend Michele, that I just thought, what the hell. And now I am covered in mosquito bites, head to toe.

abracadabra

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It is too hot. I am going to shut down this thing, drink a large glass of water, get out of my clothes and into my bed with a book. Ciao. (Michiel passed out on the living room floor, he snores)

our house

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I sure would like to live here. Wait a minute, I live here! I especially like the tiny church in the distance...

hocus pocus

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And on to the next one. Otger made dinner tonight, that was very nice of him. I'm trying to get him to learn how to cook, and even though he is no Julia Child, it looks promising.

out and about

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And now dinner, and then Julie & Julia. But maybe that's the wrong order of doing things.

horse

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I found these drawings today on an old back up CD. I did them ten years ago. I drew Piffin's Barbie-horse, I put it in front of me on the table, turned it bit by bit and sketched it 24 times. And today I figured out how to animate them and how to upload them onto my blog. I am almost proud of myself.

johann strauss

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Whacked some type on the drawing today before sending it off. And then my neighbour had an interesting drink for me, I tell you, I have an adventurous life. Oh yeah and damn, they only picked up half our garbage today. So much for being allowed to put out unlimited amounts. Hopefully it stinks too bad even for the raccoons, because I am not dragging it back into the back yard.

garbage day

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The best thing of being done is that I can throw away a thick pile of reference pictures. And the best thing today is that I can actually throw stuff out, the garbage strike is over, and we have pick up day tomorrow!! My front yard looks like a work of art if I may say so. From the curb side to half way up my tiny lawn everything is garbage, garbage, garbage. Neatly seperated recycling, compost, rest garbage, and broken glass. The sense of accomplishment just doesn't compare to the finished illustration.

plautus

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This is where I wanted to be on Friday night, it is now Sunday morning, half past ten. Lazy me. We are actually doing other stuff, away from our computers. Sparsely. But I do have a wonderfully cheap and fun staycation tip for my neighbours, a hilariously silly play in Withrow Park. Even Otger liked it, and that is saying something. The Menaechmus Twins, an old Roman klucht, what is a klucht in English? Oh, found it, a farce. A real one, with Mistaken identities, cheating husbands and tricky servants that prove that a classical Roman farce can still get belly laughs.

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